The Water Cycle Activities with Colorful Collaborative Posters for 1st grade

We continued our first grade weather unit with some fun water cycle activities! We reviewed the water cycle from last week.  We sang our water cycle song. The kids absolutely LOVE this song!  Then we made our own water cycle collaborative posters.

Water Cycle Collaborative Posters

Any time my firsties get scraps to cut and glue they are 100% engaged.  It’s their favorite.  And it had a great learning purpose {use pictures to represent the water cycle}.

This took us some time, but it was so much more meaningful than any labeling worksheet or coloring page!

…And…I think they turned out so sTiNkiN’ cute! I’m totally uh-bsessed with kid art!!

I love the wavy evaporation lines on this one!

And the teeny tiny clouds on this one, but the HUGE snow caps on the mountains….

Weather Cause And Effect Activity

After our water cycle project {plus MAJOR kid-vacuuming afterward…}, we added our last weather cause and effect to our anchor chart. This is one of my favorite anchor charts to use during our weather unit.

We talked about “cue” words like “because,” “so,” and “if….then,” for cause and effect.

Then students cut and pasted pictures into this cause and effect page and drew 2 of their own cause and effect pictures.

Where Can I Find These Water Cycle Activities?

The plans for the water cycle collaborative posters and the cause and effect cut and paste and MUCH more are included in this 6 week weather unit for first grade.